How to solve waste disposal in CHina

In today’s world, the waste disposal problem has become one of the biggest challenges that the whole society has to face. Therefore, from a future engineer’s perspective, one way that my country, China, can solve the problem is by applying the zero-waste plan.
Since my country, China, has the largest population in the world and is developing very fast nowadays, there is a big consumption of resources and goods which leads to a very serious waste disposal problem. Because of the fact in China, the traditional ways to solve this problem are not very efficient. For instance, land-filing is one of the most common ways to deal with waste problem. However, because of China’s large population and limited useful land, it is very hard for the government to plan more land for land-filling. Otherwise, there will be not enough land for farming and living, which may cause more problems. Similarly, the other common way, incineration will also bring a big environment problem since the consumption leads to big waste and a lot of these wastes are bad for the environment if we just simply incinerate them like plastic. Hence, for modern China, the best way to solve this problem is to recycle, to work from the first step, by designing anything that cannot be recycled or reused out of the system (Collins, J 2002) which is exactly the way that zero-waste worked. This plan really has a positive effect on this issue. For instance, in Britain, as soon as it applied zero-waste, “they find they are recycling more than 50%” (Collins, J 2002). However, to achieve this aim, we need the whole society’s support. Although industry is the key player, we still need the government’s support and most importantly, everyone’s support. Only in this way, we can really solve this problem, give ourselves, give the whole country and give the world a better future.

Reference: Collins, J (2002, Oct, 3rd.) Radical Plans for waste would herald a big clean-up. The guardian weekly P.25